The self has to be challenged to grow. You need to have perspectives that are different than yours to reach a higher version of self. Literature has often met those demands and has inspired growth in people since its invention. This is why self-help books are wildly popular. This curated list offers three novels and two non-fiction books to challenge your perspective and to foster your personal growth.

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When one pictures creativity the stereotype is often an artist or writer. Though these professions have creativity in common, they aren’t the only ones who can take advantage of this skill (pay special note to skill, rather than talent). People in business, lawyers, mathematicians, scientists, doctors and many others can reap the major benefits of creativity. After all, creativity is simply the ability to think outside of the box, and the ability to combine dissimilar thoughts. When expressed this way, the inherent importance of creativity is near-palpable. This article serves as a guide to deepening, or even jump-starting, your creativity.

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Writing is a skill meant for everyone. Having access to the written word has benefited society since the beginning of history. We use writing to express ourselves, to communicate ideas to one another, and (perhaps professionally) regale others in enchanting stories. This article is for those who write, maybe even do it well, but want to actualize a need to grow.

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The Absurd is a fairly simple philosophical concept. It is the conflict between the pursuit of meaning in life and the inability to find it. We don’t find it because life itself is ambivalent, because, with all the uncertainties in this world, total certainty is impossible. Most of us know this inherently, we blame the construct of “life”, as it were, for things that slight us. We’ve blamed an entire year for what’s happened within it because we expected a fortune. We received nature’s cold uncaring instead.